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ASPEN Colorado (Reuters) - A top Pentagon intelligence official warned on Saturday that the destruction of Hamas would only lead to something more dangerous taking its place, as he offered a grim portrait of a period of enduring regional conflict.
The remarks by Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, came as Israeli ministers signaled that a comprehensive deal to end the 20-day-old conflict in the Gaza Strip appeared remote.
At least 1,050 Gazans - mostly civilians - have been killed, and 42 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have died.
Flynn disparaged Hamas for exhausting finite resources and know-how to build tunnels that have helped them inflict record casualties on Israelis. Still, he suggested that destroying Hamas was not the answer.
"If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse," Flynn said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
"A worse threat that would come into the sort of ecosystem there something like ISIS," he added, referring to the Islamic State, which last month declared an "Islamic caliphate" in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.
Confined in the crowded, sandy coast enclave of 1.8 million, where poverty and unemployment hover around 40 percent, weary Gazans say they hope the battle will break the blockade that Israel and Egypt impose on them.
Israeli officials said any ceasefire must allow the military to carry on hunting down the Hamas tunnel network that criss-crosses the Gaza border.
Flynn's comments about the conflict came during a gloomy, broader assessment of unrest across the Middle East, including in Syria and Iraq. Flynn said bluntly: "Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime."
Hamas, like Zionism, is an idea. Those don't die when you kill the people who believe them, but if a new more rabid version of Hamas pushes the Zionists into the sea, they will have earned it, in spades.
Hamas, like Zionism, is an idea. Those don't die when you kill the people who believe them, but if a new more rabid version of Hamas pushes the Zionists into the sea, they will have earned it, in spades.
I can't wait till ISIS comes knocking on your door.
Hamas, like Zionism, is an idea. Those don't die when you kill the people who believe them, but if a new more rabid version of Hamas pushes the Zionists into the sea, they will have earned it, in spades.
I can't wait till ISIS comes knocking on your door.
Gonna be a while, they have to take back Spain again then cross an ocean, but not to worry, they hate me a lot more than they hate you. You probably believe in God, just the wrong one.
very similar statements were made about Northern Ireland. Its funny how the still active terrorists in NI are funded by American public donations.There won't be any peace there in ours or our children's lifetimes. Same as the last 1 or 2 thousand years.
very similar statements were made about Northern Ireland. Its funny how the still active terrorists in NI are funded by American public donations.There won't be any peace there in ours or our children's lifetimes. Same as the last 1 or 2 thousand years.
Yeaaaaaaaa......very similar statements were made about Northern Ireland. Its funny how the still active terrorists in NI are funded by American public donations.There won't be any peace there in ours or our children's lifetimes. Same as the last 1 or 2 thousand years.
Yeaaaa.....
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I can't wait till ISIS comes knocking on your door.
Gonna be a while, they have to take back Spain again then cross an ocean, but not to worry, they hate me a lot more than they hate you. You probably believe in God, just the wrong one.
That's the 2nd time you posted that.
Why would they hate you more than anyone else?
Hamas is a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organization that starves its own people, uses them as shields, blows up civilians and lobs thousands of missiles into Israel.
What the hell is going to be worse than that??
Kill all those motherfuckers.
Four sentences.Hamas is a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organization that starves its own people, uses them as shields, blows up civilians and lobs thousands of missiles into Israel.
What the hell is going to be worse than that??
Kill all those motherfuckers.
Israel has killed more innocent Palestinians than Hamas ever killed innocent Israelis.
The Israelis know that they are bolstering extremism among the Palestinians with these latest massacres;
the right in Israel wants an extremist Palestinian presence. It allows them to make their own extremist agenda look better.
Hamas is a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organization that starves its own people, uses them as shields, blows up civilians and lobs thousands of missiles into Israel.
What the hell is going to be worse than that??
Kill all those motherfuckers.
Israel has killed more innocent Palestinians than Hamas ever killed innocent Israelis.
The Israelis know that they are bolstering extremism among the Palestinians with these latest massacres;
the right in Israel wants an extremist Palestinian presence. It allows them to make their own extremist agenda look better.
I can't wait till ISIS comes knocking on your door.
Gonna be a while, they have to take back Spain again then cross an ocean, but not to worry, they hate me a lot more than they hate you. You probably believe in God, just the wrong one.
That's the 2nd time you posted that.
Why would they hate you more than anyone else?
Gonna be a while, they have to take back Spain again then cross an ocean, but not to worry, they hate me a lot more than they hate you. You probably believe in God, just the wrong one.
That's the 2nd time you posted that.
Why would they hate you more than anyone else?
They hate Liberals, and those who don't believe in God, just like you do I bet.
